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I played this right at the start of Covid lockdown. The post apocalyptic story definitely hit different at that time. It's strange you found the story so appealing, I thought every character but Aloy to be really one dimensional. The combat was what kept me hooked. When you set up that perfect ambush against a pack of robo-dinos... chef's kiss.

Literally just bought this. Looking forward to playing it soon… or in 10 years lol.

Hands down the best videogame I played since the Mass Effect Trilogy. Love the story. I usually hate open world games because of the chore list nature most of them have (I'm too busy to do games that don't resect my time, especially if they require a large time investment). This is one of the exceptions I love exactly because of the story, almost everything you do is a story element and feels relevant. As a father of a daughter the start with Rost and Aloy really pulled me in.

You don't have to tame a new mount every time you ride. The game will give you a mount if you whistle for it, but if you want a specific machine, and your mount dies, you might not get the same one when you whistle.

I was playing this game 2 years ago, i was really hooked by the story so i was a little rushed when playing it. Now i want to re-playing this game and want to more enjoy the gameplay.

i felt it when you said the game is like the sort of a checklist/chore like gameplay without much room for anything else.. i somehow feel the same way while playing this game hahahaha I just bought Horizon Zero Dawn, and ppl say that the story is good etc but i'm only have been playing it for 5 hours so the story maybe indeed good later on.. but there is one thing that to me just feel off, and that is the lack of npc interaction inside its world. During the exploring in Horizon Zero Dawn you kind of not gonna be able to interact with npcs OUTSIDE THE SETTLEMENT cuz they are simply not exist there, so you rarely see an npc along your way execpt inside A CERTAIN SETTLEMENT like in the mother's heart or in Meridian city.. while in The Witcher you will see npc all over the place, so not only npc exist INSIDE a certain SETTLEMENT but also OUTSIDE a SETTLEMENT, and during your adventure you can interact with many folks along the way and i feel that's what make the game alive cuz when you are exploring out there, you are in a game where there is many folks OUTSIDE THE CROWDED PLACE/SETTLEMENT to talk to unlike Horizon Zero Dawn where during your exploring journey, you are in a game where the middle map is full of hostile machines that need to be avoided all the times therefore logically there would be not many npc or folks OUTSIDE THE CROWDED PLACE/SETTLEMENT (Bcuz in Horizon Zero Dawn anywhere outside the village is a dangerous area full of hostile machines so there would not be many folks outside in the wild), and the only time you get to interact with folks is when you are inside some CROWDED PLACE/inside some SETTLEMENT like in Meridian or Mother's Heart for example. So exploring in The Witcher is like you can explore the game peacefully and just have a nice and slow walk while riding with your horse to appreaciate the game's beauty without having a constant fear that an enemy gonna attacked you, plus along the way you can interact with many folks in the wilds (not just inside some SETTLEMENT) which for me that's what make the game feel more alive.. Unlike exploring in Horizon Zero Dawn where you can't just have a nice and slow walk around the map, you are either forced to run and avoid machines or ride an overided striders to travel. And if you wanna interact with the npc, well too bad they only exist inside some SETTLEMENT ONLY so you won't meet many folks in the wild.. So for me Horizon Zero Dawn is the type of game where you only travel to places you are assigned to AKA to places where the quest is set, cuz what the point of exploring a new land outside where the quest is located if there is not a single npc or even folks there to have a conversation with. So games with lack of npc to talk to will make the game itself feel less alive and that's just boring for me ngl.

Great video as always! It is always nice when an open world game is actually enjoyable. So many of them have become grindy with fetch quests galore and time wasted traveling between nothing interesting(notably AC Odyssey imo, hahaha).

Great review, thank you

Thanks for the review bro. I had the same idea to pick it up before FW. Would you reccomend KB/M for this on PC or a controller cos it was a PS game? Cheers

ive played the game for over 200+ hours and if you do end up playing more id highly try and recommend taking your time to read through and listen to all the different data points. They arent necessarily required but they give such a good way of understanding the world around you that i havent really seen other games do. And with most of your gripes on the game idk if youve played forbidden west or not but that game definitely improves a lot on the areas you mentioned zero dawn fell short on.

Love Horizon Zero Dawn. How do the mounts compare to Roach :P

Well I both both HZD and HFW as Complete editions and installed them true Steam. HDZ is just not working no matter what. And everything else works. I have epic gaming PC and every game works but HZD crashes on loading first black screen you see. Watched 10000 useless videos nothing helps. HFW works but I do not want to play it without going true the HZD first :(

Your combat issues with the game may be addressed in the upcoming PS5 remake that's coming out later this year. Let's hope! The game is already as close to perfect as you can get. (The sequel, Forbidden West has achieved that perfection.) So hopefully they can do the same with the first one.

Great game but I hate the PS4 controller that that prevented me from completing it at the time

Best game ever in my opinion, the story sucked me in and I adore Aloy.

ur trippin. 30hrs? u barely dipped your toes, not to mention this is a relatively shallow rpg in terms of amouny of crafting materials and grinding, so if u saw that as a negetive it just tells me you aint really about it.

The story is quite good and intriguing, the world is magnificent, the scenery is just breath taking at times but the gameplay is average, combats are meh, repetitive and the in-game activities are copypasted from Far Cry, also the main paradigm of the game doesn't really make any sense, you're basically a teenage girl armed with a stick and a wooden bow killing huge dinosaur like sophisticated machines armored and equipped with scanners, laser guns, missile launchers and flame throwers, it's literally like attacking alone a battalion of modern tanks in your underwear with a broom and a slingshot...

"Aloy" lmao what a shaite name.